Literature-In-English Exam Past Questions and Answers | JAMB, WAEC and NECO

Literature in English is the study of works written in the English language. It includes all forms of writing, such as novels, plays, short stories, and poetry. This subject involves exploring and analyzing these texts to understand their themes and meanings.

• Question 791:

  The writer of a poem is called__________?

  Options:
  A) Author
  B) Poet
  C) Writer
  D) Narrator
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  The correct answer is B .
• Question 792:

  This question is based on General Literary Appreciation.

  Weep not child, weep not my darling

  With these kisses let me remove your tears

  The ravening clouds shall no long be victorious

  They shall no longer possess the sky....

  The speaker of the lines is

  Options:
  A) optimistic
  B) carefree
  C) helpless
  D) pessimistic
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 793:

  What structure is poetry written in?

  Options:
  A) sentences and paragraphs
  B) sentences and stanzas
  C) lines and paragraphs
  D) lines and stanzas
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 794: THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA'S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
  And I lost in the morning mist of an age at a riverside.... Options:
  A) cannot master the cultural clash of Europe and his native Africa
  B) is in aworld where the two have to co-exist in spite of incongruity
  C) that both world's are concrete complexities of the present African way of life
  D) that African life has been dulled by foreign intervention
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 795:
  From the novel; Twelfth Night

  This question is based on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

  DUKE:... Thou know'st no less but all; I have unclasped to thee the book even of my secret soul. What exactly has the Duke unclasped?

  Options:
  A) The book of his relationship with Olivia
  B) The secret of his soul
  C) The details of his relationship with Viola
  D) The details of his relationship with Olivia
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 796:

  This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.

  Who are they that 'live that the earth may die'in Nyi Osundare's ''They Too Are The Earth''?

  Options:
  A) the beggars sprawled in gutters
  B) The millions who hew wood
  C) People who fritter the forest and harry the hills
  D) Those who hurl water
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  The correct answer is C .
• Question 797:

  This question is based on General Literary Principles.

  A playwright who solves the dilemma of his characters by rescuing them from impossible circumstances using extra human device has employed

  Options:
  A) deus ex machina
  B) dramatis personae
  C) contrived manipulation
  D) dramatic reversals
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  The correct answer is A .
• Question 798:

  This question is based on Literary Principles.

  'You amble on

  We can no longer

  Wait for nature's course

  We must deliver

  You

  With

  Force'

  Amelia House, 'Our Sun Rises'

  The mood in the lines above is one of

  Options:
  A) fear
  B) sorrow
  C) joy
  D) indignation
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 799: These questions are based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
  Romeo is banished to Mantua because he Options:
  A) marries Juliet without parental consent
  B) attends Capulet's party uninvited
  C) attempts to kill Paris his rival
  D) kills Tybalt in a street duel
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  The correct answer is D .
• Question 800:

  This question is based on Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter

  The letter from used in the novel is particularly effective because it

  Options:
  A) is dramatic in impact
  B) dispenses with dialogue
  C) is an intimate form of expression
  D) is tragic in content
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  The correct answer is C .